Pacific Park Developer's Deceptive Affordable Housing Spin
Gotham Gazette
Ashley Cotton's June 22 Gotham Gazette op-ed “Tackling New York's Housing Affordability Crisis” is deeply deceptive, part of the long-running spin from the developer of the Pacific Park (formerly Atlantic Yards) project. It's on par with the misleading ...
Grub Street
Brooklyn's Newest Outdoor Bar Features Breezy Cocktails and First-rate Tacos
Grub Street
... brought in El Atoradero Brooklyn, one of New York's Best Mexican Restaurants, to handle kitchen duties. In lieu of a full-fledged branch of their Prospect Heights restaurant, owners Noah Arenstein and Denisse Lina Chavez will open Taqueria El ...
Patch.com
Crown Heights Landlord Found Guilty Of Harassing Rent-Regulated Tenants
Patch.com
CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A Crown Heights landlord was found guilty on Tuesday on charges that he harassed rent-regulated tenants to drive them out of the apartment building he owned, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced.
City & State
Media critic de Blasio should cop to how he steers coverage
City & State
Mayor Bill de Blasio joins BuzzFeed News Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith for a chat at the Northside Festival in Brooklyn. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office). In a recent interview with BuzzFeed's Ben Smith, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ...
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Brownstoner
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for 10 Units in Prospect Heights Starting at $780 a Month
Brownstoner
An affordable housing lottery has launched for 10 newly constructed units at 1007 Atlantic Avenue in Prospect Heights. The lottery will make two studio units, three one-bedrooms, and five two-bedrooms available. The studios will ask $780 a month, the ...
Patch.com
WATCH: Muscular Rat Hauls Garbage Across Brooklyn Sidewalk For Pizza
Patch.com
CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A determined rat in Brooklyn was recently spotted dragging an entire trash bag across a sidewalk in the Crown Heights neighborhood — all for a piece of a personal pizza. The rat — who we must believe is a close relative ...
NY1
City's 'Street Seats' Program Not Sitting Well with Drivers
NY1
The Blue Marble Ice Cream shop on Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights wants parked cars out, and benches put in. There's a rendering of the ... The city says there are seven "Street Seats" applications pending in Brooklyn alone. Blue Marble's ...
Patch.com
Controversial Bedford Union Armory Project Unanimously Rejected By Community Board
Patch.com
CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A controversial plan to turn the Bedford Union Armory into apartments and a recreation center was unanimously voted down at a heated community board meeting Monday. Members of Community Board 9's Land Use ...
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Patch.com
Man Shot Dead While Pumping Gas In Crown Heights
Patch.com
CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Authorities are searching for someone who they say shot and killed a man as he was pumping gas in Crown Heights over the weekend. On Saturday morning, just after midnight, officers responded to a report of shots fired ...
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Patch.com
Bike Lanes Coming To Classon Ave. After Cyclist's Death
Patch.com
CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — The New York City Department of Transportation will add bike lanes to Classon Avenue this summer, a year after cyclist Lauren Davis was killed on the busy Brooklyn street. The DOT made the announcement in a letter to ...
